iOS: Siri is a bit frustrating when it doesn't understand you correctly. If Siri doesn't get it right the first time, you're stuck repeating yourself into your phone and looking like a fool. However, as Redditor ThatIsPrettyGood points out, you can correct Siri by tapping the speech bubble and editing it.

iOS: The latest iPad received a global voice recognition feature for us in any app and the iPhone 4S, of course, has Siri. While there is no shortage of apps that translate your voice into the written word, most are limited by a few functions. Voice Assistant, on the other hand, will send the text it translates to…

If you use Windows Media Center on your home theater PC you can configure it to run via voice commands using macros for Windows7's built-in Windows Speech Recognition software. The only additional cost is for a decent microphone if you don't already have one.

Siri is the highly anticipated addition to Apple's new iPhone, allowing you to control practically everything with your voice. It can check the weather, compose a text message, and find practically any information you want. Here's a look at how it works.

Apple's latest iPhone, the 4S, will be available for pre-order this Friday, October 7th, and ready to ship on October 14th. This is a pretty fast turnaround for Apple, as iPhone announcements generally precede the actual release by a month. It features the new-ish dual-core A5 processor, an 8 MP camera with better…

We often have the tendency to talk slowly and robotic when using voice recognition apps, but you'll get better results if you speak more naturally. Lifehacker alum Kevin Purdy over at Fast Company explains:

Chrome (Beta/Dev): Voice input is now baked into Chrome's Beta version and soon to hit the standard, stable release. When it does, consider installing Speechify. This simple, handy extension adds a microphone icon to Google, Amazon, Hulu, and other sites, so you can simply say what you're searching for.

Windows/Mac/Linux: Chrome 11 has made its way to the Beta release of Chrome, bringing with it an HTML5-powered speech input ability (which you can test out here), GPU-powered 3D CSS rendering, and, most immediately noticeable, the new, flatter Chrome icon. Chrome 11 is due to hit the Stable release relatively soon,…

Chrome only: Got a microphone? Got a knack for talking faster than you type? Even if you don't, you might enjoy trying out Voice Search, an experimental Chrome add-on that uses your voice as text input, just like on Android.

Many people feel speech recognition isn't good enough for every day use, but several devotees couldn't live without it. If you're looking to start using speech recognition, tech guy David Pogue has some tips to make it more effective.

Android: Right out of the box Android phones sport some impressive voice command tools. If you want to take voice command of your phone to the next level, however, Edwin supercharges your voice commands and gives you verbal responses to your queries.

Voice recognition is all the rage on mobile devices (particularly Android phones), but if you want similar hands-free action for your desktop, you've got plenty of options. Tech how-to blog Hack a Day's primer can get you started on any platform.

In some ways it seemed inevitable, but in other ways, it's still an awesome idea. InfoWorld reports that Google is building speech recognition technologies for browsers, and not just their own Chrome—all browsers, as an "industry standard." Beyond making certain searches easy to fire off with a spoken phrase, voice…

iPhone: Nuance, makers of the Dragon Dictation app that surprised us with its accuracy, have released another free-for-now voice-to-text app, this one offering to search the web, Wikipedia, Twitter, iTunes, or other locations based on what you say.

Google's upped its pace handing out invites to Google Voice, the service that controls all your phones with one number. For those just arriving, we're offering up a beginner's guide to setting up, transitioning to, bug-fixing, and actually enjoying Google Voice.

Slate's Farhad Manjoo says he's giving up on voicemail entirely, calling it an "absurdly backward mode of human-computer interaction" and using Google Voice's voicemail-to-text service instead. Could you follow him into a voicemail-less existence?